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Twitter is not liable for providing material support to the Islamic State group, also referred to as the ISIS, by allowing its members to sign up and use accounts on its site, a federal judge in California ruled Wednesda...

Bryan Fuller’s mandate for “Star Trek: Discovery” is to recapture the sense of inclusiveness that typified the original series, from a female lead — potentially played by a woman of color — to an LGBT character...

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Bring out the brownies. Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart just got a proper TV cooking show together. That’s not the only news worth passing around. David Lynch appears on Chrysta Bell’s new EP, Janelle Monae dropped an ...

How many ground troops has the United States deployed against the Islamic State? No one knows, because the Pentagon won't say. What the Department of Defense will share is the "force management level," which counts only ...

Welcome to your mid-week edition of Comics Relief, comic book fangirls and fanboys! Lots of news to cover in today’s roundup, starting with an interesting statement from DC Comics co-publisher Jim Lee on just who is th...

Ms. Huffington helped begin the media company, now owned by Verizon, in 2005 and will be focusing on her new venture, Thrive Global.

The tragic boy killed on the world’s largest waterslide left a trail of blood behind his lifeless body, two horrified witnesses recalled. Park-goers Jess Sanford and Melanie Gocke were on the Verrückt slide at the Sch...

Russian GDP slumped 0.6% in the second quarter compared to last year, marking 18 months of recession.

The Secret Service has spoken to Donald Trump's campaign about his controversial "Second Amendment" comments, CNN ­reported Wednesday. "There has been more than one conversation," the network quoted one unnamed Secret S...

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On the one-year anniversary of the big devaluation of the yuan, analysts see a stronger U.S. dollar leading to further gradual depreciation in the yuan.

Campaigns often take a bruising toll on candidate's public image. This one's no different.

Venezuela has oil everywhere but not a drop to sell. How did heavy oil from Venezuela's Orinoco Belt tar sands (plus socialism) sink Venezuela's economy?

In central Ho Chi Minh City, financial hub of the fast-growing Vietnamese economy, 20-somethings with designer hairdos jump out of polished black sedans to pack the coffeehouses on every block and fill restaurants servin...

The country's largest media companies saw ad revenue in the second quarter grow by 5.3 percent, or a total of $2.5 billion, from the year-ago period, according to a report out Wednesday. While impressive in a tough marke...

"How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice!'' goes the old joke. But in Stephen Frears' delightful, semicomedic biopic "Florence Foster Jenkins,'' all the eccentric heiress/philanthropist of the title needed to do to mak...

GlaxoSmithKline and the Verily Life Sciences unit of Alphabet believe they can stand traditional medicine on its head with tiny implantable robots.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police say they received credible information of a potential terrorist threat

Thirty years ago, when I was just starting out as an entrepreneur, the only quality I thought I had in common with other entrepreneurs was that we were all nuts! After all, I was walking away from a perfectly good job as...

Residents described chaotic nighttime scenes, with people fleeing the flames by car at high speed on the wrong side of the road

Google has updated Gmail, both on Android and the web, with a number of new security features. For example, you'll now get a warning when you click on a link to a malicious website. The post Gmail has your back, will war...